mocks!!!

greenfruit

My mocks are starting this monday (AAHHH!!!!!!), english up first. has anyone been given any tips on whats coming up?? in any of the subjects?!!

thanks!!

Gangsta

If you do Biology, my teacher (Chief Examiner) hinted at Evolution, Nutrition, Genetics (well, up every year anyway) and Photosynthesis. Could be the people who do the mocks put up some of those topics?

abercrombie

there are 2 mock papers in each subject though so it really depends which one you get

casanova_kid

each publisher prints different mock papers, so they're all different.

Twin Lance

Ours start on monday too,I feel your pain! We have a sub English teacher cos our other one is like crazy (she goes in and out of phases now and then) and shes been goin through comparitive studies with us.today she just gave up and told us to study hopkins,bishop for poetry."a man more sinned against than sinning" for Lear and cultural context+loneliness and isolation for the cs.Whether or not thats any good to ya,i dont know

Funkstard

Don't do mocks in our school

Rockerette

^really??



i dont have my timetable yet, 3 weeks to go though for me.
its finally startin to hit me that i have 18 months of work to revise... =/

d4gurl

Mine are in two weeks!So scared!!!

CerebralCortex

Mocks = pointless.

Toasty

are all mock papers the same all round the country?

Funkstard

yeh our school says their needless pressure and a waste of time. I agree

Le Rack

No, they're a practice for the real examand an indication of what way you should go, points and level-wise.

Little Miss...

sure there's a few mock papers for each exam subject so what comes up on mine isnt necessarily gonna come up in yours...we're all f*cked! ah well

Funkstard

Le Rack wrote:

No, they're a practice for the real examand an indication of what way you should go, points and level-wise.

Practice? I thought that's what the Junior Cert was for? Every exam you do is practice, everytime you sit at your desk and time yourself answering a question you're doing as much, if not more, practice than a few weeks of pure stress.

You also miss a good few weeks of classes, with the actual exams and the revision classes you're given. That's much more counterproductive.

Not having mocks means you don't have a big ball of drama and stress a few weeks after Christmas, no distractions. You can continue right on with your courses whilst everyone else is 'revising' courses they mightn't even have properly finished yet.

That's my belief anyway. I didn't do mocks for the Junior Cert either and did just fine. Our school is in the top level in the country too for Leaving Cert results too.

JackKelly

Le Rack wrote:

No, they're a practice for the real examand an indication of what way you should go, points and level-wise.

They are no indication at all of which way you should go. I failed both Physics and Chemistry in mine, and ended up getting an a2 and b2 respectively.

At this stage in the year, you are only really settling down to *proper* study (at least i was) and IMO, it's a lot better to spend your time studying slowly towards the actual exams, than wasting time now trying to to study everything for a test that means nothing.
If i was doing 6th year again, i wouldnt bother with them.

Also, you should aim for as many points possible, not just for your course requirment (unless of course its medicine).

tinka

TimAy wrote:

They are no indication at all of which way you should go. I failed both Physics and Chemistry in mine, and ended up getting an a2 and b2 respectively.

At this stage in the year, you are only really settling down to *proper* study (at least i was) and IMO, it's a lot better to spend your time studying slowly towards the actual exams, than wasting time now trying to to study everything for a test that means nothing.
If i was doing 6th year again, i wouldnt bother with them.

Also, you should aim for as many points possible, not just for your course requirment (unless of course its medicine).

an A2 in physics?? :eek: i can always dream... :rolleyes:

Setun

TimAy wrote:

They are no indication at all of which way you should go. I failed both Physics and Chemistry in mine, and ended up getting an a2 and b2 respectively.

At this stage in the year, you are only really settling down to *proper* study (at least i was) and IMO, it's a lot better to spend your time studying slowly towards the actual exams, than wasting time now trying to to study everything for a test that means nothing.
If i was doing 6th year again, i wouldnt bother with them.

Also, you should aim for as many points possible, not just for your course requirment (unless of course its medicine).

Yeah, I agree with you. I've heard countless stories of people getting >200 then getting 400+ in the actual leaving. Still, you want to do your best, even if it's just to avoid teachers ranting like mentalists about "The Standard Is Slipping (tm)", and "This Class Are A Bunch Of Dossers (tm)".



In the History one you can bet on a question on Hitler and the Nazi's rise to power, and Sinn Fein after the 1916 rising. There fairly sure for us anyway.

deisedolly

I am f*cked for the pres!

Shrimp

my mocks start on tuesday

caesar

I'm not looking forward to them, start the 20th of feb plus my birthday is during them :mad:

grimloch

Plus they're marked harder than the actual exams.

Scare tactics tbh.

That being said I have mine next thursday and I'll get such a paddlin' if I do really badly, and I don't see myself revising the entire maths course in a few days.:)

Setun

There are a few weird things coming up in our business exam that aren't on the actual leaving curiculum:

Delayering: simplifying management structures by eliminating lines of management - so there is a greater span of control, less wage costs and more direct communications.

<Just in case>

Azureus

ive got irish paper 2 and maths tomoro- i stupidly left it until tonight to learn the entire course (irish mainly) ... havent a clue whats coming up either. im hoping to get by on the 'its marked harder' and 'we havent even finished the course so how can we answer lc papers' excuses, kinda true but still!